“Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.”

John Gardner

“If thou follow thy star, thou canst not fail of a glorious heaven.”

Dante

“The bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.”

Maya Angelou

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.”

Albert Einstein

“Don’t worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to. It will stick to you and show you up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do.”

Robert Henri

“I am not a has-been. I am a will-be.”

Lauren Bacall

“The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life and the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do.”

Henry Moore

“One of the hardest tasks in design—or in life for that matter—is to deal with excessive freedom. In the absence of a limiting context, design becomes movement without direction, fickle and unproductive.”

Tim McCreight

“Art need not be intended. It comes inevitably as the tree from the root, the branch from the trunk, the blossom from the twig. None of these forget the present in looking backward or forward. They are occupied fully with the fulfillment of their own existence.”

Robert Henri